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== GDM on Wayland ==
==GNOME 3.10==
The Gnome Display Manager (GDM) in Fedora 22 will default to the Wayland display server instead of Xorg. While the default GNOME session still uses X, this change brings the move to Wayland one step closer.
Fedora 20 features GNOME 3.10. This latest version of the GNOME desktop will have a number of new applications and features:
* New Feature: Fine grained scrolling when dragging the scroll bar handle, or scrolling while holding the shift key.
* New feature: Support for login and authentication with Smart Cards.
* New feature: Header bars: Header bars merge title bars and toolbars into a single element, giving more screen space to window content and improving presentation of application controls.
* Improved Magnifier with caret tracking, press F7 to activate caret.
* New Feature: Lock screen background customization
* New feature: Geolocation: A new geolocation framework allows features like automatic timezone updates when travelling and location detection in `Maps`.
* New feature: `GNOME Documents` support for OwnCloud
* New feature: Drag and drop files between your computer and a `Boxes` guest. Windows guests will need http://spice-space.org/download/windows/spice-guest-tools/ installed, and linux guests will need an updated version of spice-vdagent.
* New Feature: `Boxes` support for importing filesystem images
* Improved user interface for "Comtacts"
* Improved automatic scaling for high pixel density displays.
* Improved application selection in the shell Overview
* Flikr integration with GNOME Online Accounts allows access to Flikr content in GNOME Photos.
* Improved, integrated system status menu.
* Redesigned `gnome-tweak-tool`,  with improved design, extension integration, and expanded functionality.
* New: `gnome-maps`, A simple map application for the GNOME Desktop.
* New: `gnome-music`, a streamlined application for playing and sharing music.


GNOME 3.10 also offers a technical preview of GNOME support for wayland.
Wayland is a compositing display server, using your computer's video hardware for rendering.  On systems where Wayland will not run, GDM should transparently fall back to using the X backend.
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===GNOME Software===
If you need to disable Wayland for GDM, edit '''/etc/gdm/custom.conf''' to reflect the following:
A new, visually appealing application for browsing and installing applications.  


There is also preliminary support in this release for running GNOME-shell as a Wayland compositor, though Wayland may not be in the default packages for the final Fedora 20 release.
    [daemon]
    WaylandEnable=false


===More reading===
== Libinput used for input devices ==
To learn more about GNOME 3.10, check:
Input devices in supporting environments, notably GNOME with Fedora Workstation and KDE, will use a new driver, '''libinput'''. The new driver replaces a variety of drivers, such as '''synaptics''', enabling more consistent behavior across a variety of devices. 
* Upstream release notes: https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.10/
 
* New applications: https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.10/more-apps.html
'''libinput'' improves support for multi-touch devices and software emulated buttons. The driver is implemented directly in wayland sessions, and in X sessions through the '''xorg-x11-drv-libinput''' wrapper.
* User Experience updates: https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.10/more-core-ux.html
 
* Internationalization notes: https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.10/i18n.html
Input devices will be configurable through '''GNOME Settings''', '''KDE System Settings''', '''xfce-settings''', or '''xinput'''. Some niche features are not available via '''libinput''', but the previous behavior can be restored by removing the '''xorg-x11-drv-libinput''' package, and ensuring the appropriate x11 driver packages, probably x11-drv-synaptics or xorg-x11-drv-evdev are installed.
* Sysadmin/Developer Notes: https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.10/developers.html
 
==MATE==
Note that '''xorg-x11-drv-libinput''' is only installed by default on new Fedora 22 installations, if you're upgrading and you want to use the new features provided by libinput, you can install '''xorg-x11-drv-libinput''' manually by doing:
===bluetooth===
 
In Fedora 20 the MATE desktop Bluetooth applet suffers compatibility issues with Bluez5. Users needing Bluetooth functionality should install the `bluedevil` package
    sudo dnf install xorg-x11-drv-libinput
 
To learn about the features and behavior of libinput, refer to `man libinput` or http://wayland.freedesktop.org/libinput/doc/latest/pages.html


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GDM on Wayland

The Gnome Display Manager (GDM) in Fedora 22 will default to the Wayland display server instead of Xorg. While the default GNOME session still uses X, this change brings the move to Wayland one step closer.

Wayland is a compositing display server, using your computer's video hardware for rendering. On systems where Wayland will not run, GDM should transparently fall back to using the X backend.

If you need to disable Wayland for GDM, edit /etc/gdm/custom.conf to reflect the following: 

   [daemon]
    WaylandEnable=false

Libinput used for input devices

Input devices in supporting environments, notably GNOME with Fedora Workstation and KDE, will use a new driver, libinput. The new driver replaces a variety of drivers, such as synaptics, enabling more consistent behavior across a variety of devices.

'libinput improves support for multi-touch devices and software emulated buttons. The driver is implemented directly in wayland sessions, and in X sessions through the xorg-x11-drv-libinput wrapper.

Input devices will be configurable through GNOME Settings, KDE System Settings, xfce-settings, or xinput. Some niche features are not available via libinput, but the previous behavior can be restored by removing the xorg-x11-drv-libinput package, and ensuring the appropriate x11 driver packages, probably x11-drv-synaptics or xorg-x11-drv-evdev are installed.

Note that xorg-x11-drv-libinput is only installed by default on new Fedora 22 installations, if you're upgrading and you want to use the new features provided by libinput, you can install xorg-x11-drv-libinput manually by doing: 

   sudo dnf install xorg-x11-drv-libinput

To learn about the features and behavior of libinput, refer to man libinput or http://wayland.freedesktop.org/libinput/doc/latest/pages.html

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